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R

r_walklate@hotmail.com

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It's brilliant got to be one of the best with plenty to do. Just watch the weather currently thunder storms and it does respond to the old h2o!!! Took my girlfriend down and she loved it.
 
droid

droid

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It's a lot of cave in a short space.

Got a bit of everything. Especially water if it rains when you're underground, as the previous poster says.
 
Mrs Trellis

Mrs Trellis

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Weather conditions improving from Wednesday onwards. Unless you're experienced it would be wise to give the water a couple of days to go through the system.
 
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mark220gsiturbo1

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Went ere yesterday for 1st time its was brilliant really gud. Got has far as mud hall. Need to go again coz there is so much to look at!
 
Graigwen

Graigwen

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Mrs Trellis said:
Weather conditions improving from Wednesday onwards. Unless you're experienced it would be wise to give the water a couple of days to go through the system.
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You have changed your mind since 1967 then?

"The worst night I have ever spent either above or below ground or even at sea in a small boat, was on one club trip to Derbyshire. We spent one wintry night in the Eldon Club hut behind Woolworth's in Buxton. "  Mike Harris, see http://users.aber.ac.uk/club06/history/

I remember that trip; more than half were complete novices; Giants and Carlswark(!) were flooded so we went down P8; free climbing pitches without lifelines because no-one could tie a bowline and we did not know about other knots; on the way out three lights shared between eleven cavers; worst of all, only getting to the pub five minutes before it closed.


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bograt

bograt

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Aaah, thats what I love about this forum; The excitement of the first trip down P8, The recollection of adventures down there; remembering my landlady saying "You've not been caving till this time, it gets dark at nine o'clock"_ _ _?? :cry: :cry:
 
R

r_walklate@hotmail.com

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Giants and Carlswark(!) were flooded so we went down P8; free climbing pitches without lifelines because no-one could tie a bowline and we did not know about other knots; on the way out three lights shared between eleven cavers



Is that not how it's still done?!?!?!?!?!? It worked for me must admit I let my misses have the light and I used the washing line!!!!!!!
 
Graigwen

Graigwen

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Mrs Trellis said:
Ah - but we made it. The pub I mean.
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As we entered the pub Match of the Day was showing on the TV. Realising the time I ordered three pints of Double Diamond for myself - if I had known how cold the night in the Eldon Hut was going to be I would have had half a bottle of whisky.

Can you recall the name of the pub Glyn, was it something like the One Tun?

Do you remember the van driver? He was claustrophobic but you had somehow tempted him into driving us up there and going underground The poor bloke got through the cave OK but as soon as we got out he started shaking convulsively and turned a strange colour - he never caved again.

Anyway, at least we were entertaining by you singing the Thrashing Machine and what you claimed was the full version of the Engineers Song as we marched across the moor......in pitch darkness.


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skippy

skippy

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Ah...the infamous 'Engineer Song'.....Mrs Trellis used to entertain us with that little ditty aswell...Though we never used to let him finish the full version.
 
Brains

Brains

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Sadly have to agree - it was good once, but if you have to call in now stick to bottled beer, better to go anywhere else imho
 
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